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Download full textJoyvina K. Evans – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2024
Preparing students enrolled in healthcare programs for industry is paramount. While providing administrative and clinical education is essential, students must understand the health literacy levels of the population they serve and work diligently to ensure the population understands and comprehends the health information. Adults with low or…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Literacy, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Direct linkBurt Davis; Carel Jansen – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: This study evaluated the effects of reading different versions of a fotonovela about diabetes in resource-poor settings in South Africa. Design: An experimental study was conducted with 411 participants, comparing a fotonovela with a younger protagonist, a similar fotonovela version with an older protagonist and a no message control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diabetes, Community Education, Information Dissemination
Eliana Romina Meza-Miranda; Solange Liliana Parra-Soto; Samuel Durán-Agüero; Georgina Gomez; Valeria Carpio-Arias; Israel Ríos-Castillo; Ana Gabriela Murillo; Jacqueline Araneda; Gladys Morales; Brian M. Cavagnari; Edna J. Nava-González; Jhon J. Bejarano-Roncancio; Beatriz Núñez; Karla Cordón-Arrivillaga; Saby Mauricio-Alza; Leslie Landaeta-Díaz – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Introduction: Short sleep, physical inactivity, and being locked up are risk factors for weight gain. Objective: We evaluated weight gain according to sex, age, hours of sleep and physical activity in university students from 10 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional and multicenter study (n = 4880).…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Sleep, Physical Activity Level, College Students
Nisar, Faiza; Zeb, Sadaf; Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Ahmed, Shaf – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Community attachments are thought to promote adolescents' engagement in public health behaviors. To date, past research has exclusively examined the social benefits of community attachments among adolescents in the United States and less is known about these benefits among youth in low-income adolescent-dense countries such as…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health
Kyoungsan Seo; Se-an Kim; Young June Choe; Jihyun Moon – Journal of School Nursing, 2025
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic drastically shifted the public health burden onto the school health system. We, therefore, explored the school nurses' experiences and needs for confronting the pandemic in school settings across Korea. This qualitative investigation enrolled 30 participants after their written consent. A written interview…
Descriptors: School Nurses, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health
Emilia A. Glodici; Monica G. Brînzac; Andreea Rusu; Razvan M. Chereches; Marius I. Ungureanu; Madalina A. Coman – SAGE Open, 2024
In addition to the infectious disease, the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by an infodemic that worsened the outbreak. Increased digital health literacy (DHL) skills and information-seeking behaviors are crucial for accessing, understanding, and evaluating online health information, especially during a pandemic, where misinformation imposes…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Digital Literacy, Predictor Variables, COVID-19
Mustafa Koc; Mehmet Sinan Bugday – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
With the development of technology, people's gaming tools and practices have also changed. While games are an activity that people need to have fun, they are also important for their cognitive and affective development. Today, digital games have largely replaced traditional games and become popular among children and young people. This situation…
Descriptors: Video Games, Addictive Behavior, Public Health, Health Behavior
Whisnant, Joanna; Martin-Kerry, Jacqueline; Flett, Lydia; Knapp, Peter – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To identify predictors of meningococcal vaccine uptake among university and college students, the most common carriers of meningococcal disease. Participants: University or college students aged 18 to 25 years. Methods: Multiple databases, citations, and gray literature were systematically searched in April 2017 and January 2019, for…
Descriptors: College Students, Immunization Programs, Disease Control, Communicable Diseases
Soomro, Bahadur Ali; Shah, Naimatullah – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: At present, almost the whole globe is facing a severe threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The present study examines the intention to stay home due to COVID-19 during a second wave of the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a deductive approach based on cross-sectional data. An online survey is conducted…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Intention, Foreign Countries
Ellie Hewer; Michael B. Lewis – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Studies show that surgical face masks can have both positive and negative effects on attractiveness. Race has been implicated as a moderator of the size of this mask effect. Here, the moderating effects of expression, race and gender are explored. The mask effect was more positive for males than for females, for neutral faces than for smiling…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health, Hygiene
Wahiba Abu-Ras; Basil H. Aboul-Enein; Fatmah Almoayad; Nada Benajiba; Elizabeth Dodge – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background: Religious institutions play a crucial role in health promotion and hold significant influence in the public health field. Aim: The aim of this review is to examine outcomes of health-promoting interventions involving the use of mosques as the intervention venue, its role in promoting health behavior change, and the role of theory in…
Descriptors: Islam, Public Health, Health Promotion, Religious Factors
Vermeer, Julianne; Battista, Kate; Leatherdale, Scott T. – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Adolescence coincides with the adoption of health behaviors that schools are not necessarily equipped to properly address. Collaboration between schools and external health services such as public health could fill gaps in addressing student health. Methods: The current study uses student- and school-level survey data from 59…
Descriptors: Public Health, School Health Services, Foreign Countries, Community Health Services
Lyu, Joanne Chen; Wang, Di; Mao, Zhifei; Ling, Pamela M – Health Education Research, 2021
This study conducted a content analysis of 639 news articles about e-cigarettes in China from 2004-2019 to examine longitudinal changes in media frames and media tones about e-cigarettes in Chinese newspapers. Results indicated that policy frame was the most frequently used frame, followed by human impact frame, information frame, and uncertainty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Newspapers
Ebrahimipour, Hajar; Mokhtari Dinani, Maryam; Pandari, Abbas Rezaei – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and rank the influential social marketing factors for physical activity promotion. Design/methodology/approach: A descriptive-survey approach is used in this study. First, the influential social marketing factors for physical activity promotion were determined through the review of theoretical…
Descriptors: Marketing, Health Behavior, Health Promotion, Public Health
M. Rajashekhar; Radhika Sharma; Abhishek V. Raut; Ashwini Kalantri; Subodh S. Gupta; The VCaN Collaboration Team – Health Education Journal, 2024
Introduction: The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major challenge for countries, regardless of their level of development. Social branding is an emerging approach to health promotion for NCD prevention. In this paper, the process of social branding is documented as a case study to help researchers develop similar kinds of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Health, Health Promotion, Advertising
